Connecting Experimental and Theoretical Perspectives

Title
Connecting Experimental and Theoretical Perspectives
Publication Date
2011
Author(s)
Prodromou, Theodosia
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0685-7756
Email: tprodrom@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:tprodrom
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (ERME)
Place of publication
Online
UNE publication id
une:8555
Abstract
This paper presents a case study of a group of pre-service teachers (age 21-52) as they work in a domain of stochastic abstraction to reason about "experimental" and "theoretical" perspectives. I am particularly interested in investigating whether preservice teachers could construct a bidirectional link between the data-centric and modelling perspectives on distribution, similar to the tentative model I introduced elsewhere for coordinating the two perspectives on distribution. In this study, we have seen echoes of these ideas in relation to experimental and theoretical probabilities. The results show students' movement between probabilities at the micro level and the shape of histograms at the macro level.
Link
Citation
Proceedings of the Seventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, p. 1-10
Start page
1
End page
10

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